עֵדֶןʻÊden
Eden, the region of Adam's home
Pronunciation: ay'-den · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5731
Meanings
proper name [of a territory]: (probably associated by Hebrew with I. עֵדֶן), district in which lay garden of ׳ י home of Adam and Eve (Genesis 2:8; Genesis 2:10; Genesis 4:16; Genesis 2:15; Genesis 3:23)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 16 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 2:8 Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.
- Genesis 2:10 A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches.
- Genesis 2:15 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
- Genesis 3:23 So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.
- Genesis 3:24 After sending them out, the Lord God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And he placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
- Genesis 4:16 So Cain left the Lord’s presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).